xen-devel.lists.xenproject.org archive mirror
 help / color / mirror / Atom feed
From: Paul Durrant <Paul.Durrant@citrix.com>
To: 'Jan Beulich' <JBeulich@suse.com>, Kevin Tian <kevin.tian@intel.com>
Cc: xen-devel <xen-devel@lists.xenproject.org>,
	Julien Grall <julien.grall@arm.com>,
	Stefano Stabellini <sstabellini@kernel.org>,
	Suravee Suthikulpanit <suravee.suthikulpanit@amd.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v6 01/14] iommu: introduce the concept of BFN...
Date: Tue, 4 Sep 2018 08:49:20 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <777ac29dd97a46938eec6c00ecf51e32@AMSPEX02CL03.citrite.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <5B8E469802000078001E4FE5@prv1-mh.provo.novell.com>

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Jan Beulich [mailto:JBeulich@suse.com]
> Sent: 04 September 2018 09:47
> To: Kevin Tian <kevin.tian@intel.com>
> Cc: Suravee Suthikulpanit <suravee.suthikulpanit@amd.com>; Julien Grall
> <julien.grall@arm.com>; Paul Durrant <Paul.Durrant@citrix.com>; Stefano
> Stabellini <sstabellini@kernel.org>; xen-devel <xen-
> devel@lists.xenproject.org>
> Subject: Re: [Xen-devel] [PATCH v6 01/14] iommu: introduce the concept of
> BFN...
> 
> >>> On 04.09.18 at 10:37, <kevin.tian@intel.com> wrote:
> >>  From: Jan Beulich [mailto:JBeulich@suse.com]
> >> Sent: Tuesday, September 4, 2018 4:33 PM
> >> >
> >> > bus address is commonly used along with physical/virtual address, to
> >> > represent different views between devices and CPU. From that angle
> >> > I think BFN is a clear term in this context. btw it is not necessary to
> >> > differentiate GBFN and MBFN since there is only one BFN view per
> >> > device.
> >>
> >> Sure, but you neglect the presence of one or more IOMMUs when
> >> you say "between devices and CPU". There addresses prior to and
> >> after IOMMU translation are distinct, and while the one before the
> >> translation matches the device view, the one after translation does
> >> not necessarily match the CPU view. Hence there are two "bus"
> >> frame numbers here - one representing the device view, and the
> >> other representing the IOMMU (output) view.
> >>
> >
> > I didn't get. the output address from IOMMU is the one sent to
> > memory controller, same as the one sent from CPU.
> 
> That's on present x86 systems, but aiui not in the general case. The
> terminology to be used in Xen should fit the general case though.

So your concern is cascaded IOMMUs?

  Paul

> 
> Jan
> 


_______________________________________________
Xen-devel mailing list
Xen-devel@lists.xenproject.org
https://lists.xenproject.org/mailman/listinfo/xen-devel

  reply	other threads:[~2018-09-04  8:49 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 111+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2018-08-23  9:46 [PATCH v6 00/14] paravirtual IOMMU interface Paul Durrant
2018-08-23  9:46 ` [PATCH v6 01/14] iommu: introduce the concept of BFN Paul Durrant
2018-08-30 15:59   ` Jan Beulich
2018-09-03  8:23     ` Paul Durrant
2018-09-03 11:46       ` Jan Beulich
2018-09-04  6:48         ` Tian, Kevin
2018-09-04  8:32           ` Jan Beulich
2018-09-04  8:37             ` Tian, Kevin
2018-09-04  8:47               ` Jan Beulich
2018-09-04  8:49                 ` Paul Durrant [this message]
2018-09-04  9:08                   ` Jan Beulich
2018-09-05  0:42                     ` Tian, Kevin
2018-09-05  6:48                       ` Jan Beulich
2018-09-05  6:56                         ` Tian, Kevin
2018-09-05  7:11                           ` Jan Beulich
2018-09-05  9:13                             ` Paul Durrant
2018-09-05  9:38                               ` Jan Beulich
2018-09-06 10:36                                 ` Paul Durrant
2018-09-06 13:13                                   ` Jan Beulich
2018-09-06 14:54                                     ` Paul Durrant
2018-09-07  1:47                                       ` Tian, Kevin
2018-09-07  6:24                                         ` Jan Beulich
2018-09-07  8:13                                           ` Paul Durrant
2018-09-07  8:16                                             ` Tian, Kevin
2018-09-07  8:25                                               ` Paul Durrant
2018-08-23  9:46 ` [PATCH v6 02/14] iommu: make use of type-safe BFN and MFN in exported functions Paul Durrant
2018-09-04 10:29   ` Jan Beulich
2018-08-23  9:47 ` [PATCH v6 03/14] iommu: push use of type-safe BFN and MFN into iommu_ops Paul Durrant
2018-09-04 10:32   ` Jan Beulich
2018-08-23  9:47 ` [PATCH v6 04/14] iommu: don't domain_crash() inside iommu_map/unmap_page() Paul Durrant
2018-09-04 10:38   ` Jan Beulich
2018-09-04 10:39     ` Paul Durrant
2018-08-23  9:47 ` [PATCH v6 05/14] public / x86: introduce __HYPERCALL_iommu_op Paul Durrant
2018-09-04 11:50   ` Jan Beulich
2018-09-04 12:23     ` Paul Durrant
2018-09-04 12:55       ` Jan Beulich
2018-09-04 13:17         ` Paul Durrant
2018-09-07 10:52   ` Jan Beulich
2018-08-23  9:47 ` [PATCH v6 06/14] iommu: track reserved ranges using a rangeset Paul Durrant
2018-09-07 10:40   ` Jan Beulich
2018-09-11  9:28     ` Paul Durrant
2018-08-23  9:47 ` [PATCH v6 07/14] x86: add iommu_op to query reserved ranges Paul Durrant
2018-09-07 11:01   ` Jan Beulich
2018-09-11  9:34     ` Paul Durrant
2018-09-11  9:43       ` Jan Beulich
2018-09-13  6:11     ` Tian, Kevin
2018-08-23  9:47 ` [PATCH v6 08/14] vtd: add lookup_page method to iommu_ops Paul Durrant
2018-09-07 11:11   ` Jan Beulich
2018-09-07 12:36     ` Paul Durrant
2018-09-07 14:56       ` Jan Beulich
2018-09-07 15:24         ` Paul Durrant
2018-09-07 15:52           ` Jan Beulich
2018-09-12  8:31     ` Paul Durrant
2018-09-12  8:43       ` Jan Beulich
2018-09-12  8:45         ` Paul Durrant
2018-09-12  8:51           ` Paul Durrant
2018-09-12  8:53             ` Paul Durrant
2018-09-12  9:03               ` Jan Beulich
2018-09-12  9:05                 ` Paul Durrant
2018-09-12  9:12                   ` Jan Beulich
2018-09-12  9:15                     ` Paul Durrant
2018-09-12  9:21                       ` Jan Beulich
2018-09-12  9:30                         ` Paul Durrant
2018-09-12 10:07                           ` Jan Beulich
2018-09-12 10:09                             ` Paul Durrant
2018-09-12 12:15                               ` Jan Beulich
2018-09-12 12:22                                 ` Paul Durrant
2018-09-12 12:39                                   ` Jan Beulich
2018-09-12 12:53                                     ` Paul Durrant
2018-09-12 13:19                                       ` Jan Beulich
2018-09-12 13:25                                         ` Paul Durrant
2018-09-12 13:39                                           ` Jan Beulich
2018-09-12 13:43                                             ` Paul Durrant
2018-09-12  8:59           ` Jan Beulich
2018-08-23  9:47 ` [PATCH v6 09/14] mm / iommu: include need_iommu() test in iommu_use_hap_pt() Paul Durrant
2018-09-07 11:20   ` Jan Beulich
2018-09-11  9:39     ` Paul Durrant
2018-09-11  9:47       ` Jan Beulich
2018-09-13  6:23         ` Tian, Kevin
2018-09-13  8:34           ` Paul Durrant
2018-08-23  9:47 ` [PATCH v6 10/14] mm / iommu: split need_iommu() into has_iommu_pt() and need_iommu_pt_sync() Paul Durrant
2018-08-23 11:10   ` Razvan Cojocaru
2018-09-11 14:31   ` Jan Beulich
2018-09-11 15:40     ` Paul Durrant
2018-09-12  6:45       ` Jan Beulich
2018-09-12  8:07         ` Paul Durrant
2018-08-23  9:47 ` [PATCH v6 11/14] x86: add iommu_op to enable modification of IOMMU mappings Paul Durrant
2018-09-11 14:48   ` Jan Beulich
2018-09-11 15:52     ` Paul Durrant
2018-09-12  6:53       ` Jan Beulich
2018-09-12  8:04         ` Paul Durrant
2018-08-23  9:47 ` [PATCH v6 12/14] memory: add get_paged_gfn() as a wrapper Paul Durrant
2018-08-23 10:24   ` Julien Grall
2018-08-23 10:30     ` Paul Durrant
2018-09-11 14:56   ` Jan Beulich
2018-09-12  9:10     ` Paul Durrant
2018-09-12  9:15       ` Jan Beulich
2018-09-12 10:01         ` George Dunlap
2018-09-12 10:08           ` Paul Durrant
2018-09-12 10:10           ` Jan Beulich
2018-08-23  9:47 ` [PATCH v6 13/14] x86: add iommu_ops to modify and flush IOMMU mappings Paul Durrant
2018-09-11 15:15   ` Jan Beulich
2018-09-12  7:03   ` Jan Beulich
2018-09-12  8:02     ` Paul Durrant
2018-09-12  8:27       ` Jan Beulich
2018-09-13  6:41       ` Tian, Kevin
2018-09-13  8:32         ` Paul Durrant
2018-09-13  8:49         ` Jan Beulich
2018-08-23  9:47 ` [PATCH v6 14/14] x86: extend the map and unmap iommu_ops to support grant references Paul Durrant
2018-09-12 14:12   ` Jan Beulich
2018-09-12 16:28     ` Paul Durrant

Reply instructions:

You may reply publicly to this message via plain-text email
using any one of the following methods:

* Save the following mbox file, import it into your mail client,
  and reply-to-all from there: mbox

  Avoid top-posting and favor interleaved quoting:
  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Posting_style#Interleaved_style

* Reply using the --to, --cc, and --in-reply-to
  switches of git-send-email(1):

  git send-email \
    --in-reply-to=777ac29dd97a46938eec6c00ecf51e32@AMSPEX02CL03.citrite.net \
    --to=paul.durrant@citrix.com \
    --cc=JBeulich@suse.com \
    --cc=julien.grall@arm.com \
    --cc=kevin.tian@intel.com \
    --cc=sstabellini@kernel.org \
    --cc=suravee.suthikulpanit@amd.com \
    --cc=xen-devel@lists.xenproject.org \
    /path/to/YOUR_REPLY

  https://kernel.org/pub/software/scm/git/docs/git-send-email.html

* If your mail client supports setting the In-Reply-To header
  via mailto: links, try the mailto: link
Be sure your reply has a Subject: header at the top and a blank line before the message body.
This is a public inbox, see mirroring instructions
for how to clone and mirror all data and code used for this inbox;
as well as URLs for NNTP newsgroup(s).